Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2018
Abstract
This article examines the use of the Homeric (epic) simile in the biblical epic poem De spiritalis historiae gestis composed by Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus (+ 518). In the first part of the article, a list of all identified similes in the poem is given with some notes on the continuity between Avitusí use of this figure of speech and the one of his classical (mainly Latin) predecessors, and on the way Avitus innovates this use.
In this regard, the influence of the exegetical approach to text is particularly underlined. The second part consists of a commentary to selected similes (1,76-79 and 2,126-135).
